Here I go again looking for answers! at 16 was told I had IBS,wasnt too bad nothing I couldnt handle or tolerate..have some bad days constipated or the big D with cramps but didnt hit me like what im having now for last 7 months,usually had relief after bm, now its severe abdominal pain,belly button area, low left and right side pain,,sometimes radiates upper area and pelvic/rectal pain,stabbing pain,not crampy.Lost almost 60lbs,metal taste in mouth,heartburn,bloating,bad nausea,hair loss,appetite loss due to the pain (was on ensure but just now starting solid food..nothing agree's with me)bm's alternate,fever and night sweats,trapped gas (i havent been able to pass gas in months)alot of bowel noises and rumbling.After bm still continue to have urge to pass gas or stool but cant,Many trips to er,nothing can be found wrong,but this mimics appendicitis or sometimes partial bowel obstruction,few times a month wake from sound sleep with "gassy diarrhea attacks" feel clammy/sweating/ feel like im gonna die.In April was in hospital for 3 days for this pain.Have had many procedures,tested for porphyria,celiac lactose intolerent,sprue,negative,mercury/toxin poison now.waiting on results.Many catscans,pap/pelvic exams,and ultrasounds,
Colonscopy-normal?,gi noted on biopsy some inflammation,said its ibs.
endoscopy-normal
hida scan-gallbadder is ok
laparscopy-no endometriosis
kidney ivp-no stones
I'm 28 and use to be active,I had to quit my job (cosmetologist) because most of time I cant even stand up,any ideas or similar experiences appreciated,ty (:

I had chronic appendicitis for YEARS when I was a teenager (I'm 33 now). I would have these attacks of abdominal pain every once in a while. The doctors couldn't find anything wrong with me. I don't think I had most of the symptoms you described, but I had LOTS of abdominal pain. Anyway, they did exploratory surgery and took out my appendix and said it was "acute" (meaning, I think, ready to burst).

Years later, I mentioned to a doctor that I had had chronic appendicitis and they said "That doesn't exist!"

I later mentioned it to another and they said it did exist. All I know is that I had it. After my surgery, I didn't have another attack of the abdominal pain.

I had chronic appendicitis for YEARS when I was a teenager (I'm 33 now). I would have these attacks of abdominal pain every once in a while. The doctors couldn't find anything wrong with me. I don't think I had most of the symptoms you described, but I had LOTS of abdominal pain. Anyway, they did exploratory surgery and took out my appendix and said it was "acute" (meaning, I think, ready to burst).

Years later, I mentioned to a doctor that I had had chronic appendicitis and they said "That doesn't exist!"

I later mentioned it to another and they said it did exist. All I know is that I had it. After my surgery, I didn't have another attack of the abdominal pain.

Alot of dr's debate if chronic exist,I believe it does,but having laparscopy in Aug to check for endometriosis,nothing showed up.Dr said he had good look and appendix said it looked fine.Since then symptoms and pain are worse,no infection from surgery.
I've talked to few ppl who had chronic,dr said appendix look fine,only to find few days,weeks,months later was getting ready to rupture.Scary eh ? Its alway lower right side,appendix area,sometimes radiates to left,never goes away or eases up,its really weird! and frustrating..7 months like this is taking its toll! I switched to new dr who is willing to get to bottom of this..whew! go for barium x-ray tomorrow,hopefully that will reveal something and get an answer for whatever this is.(:

Alot of dr's debate if chronic exist,I believe it does,but having laparscopy in Aug to check for endometriosis,nothing showed up.Dr said he had good look and appendix said it looked fine.Since then symptoms and pain are worse,no infection from surgery.
I've talked to few ppl who had chronic,dr said appendix look fine,only to find few days,weeks,months later was getting ready to rupture.Scary eh ? Its alway lower right side,appendix area,sometimes radiates to left,never goes away or eases up,its really weird! and frustrating..7 months like this is taking its toll! I switched to new dr who is willing to get to bottom of this..whew! go for barium x-ray tomorrow,hopefully that will reveal something and get an answer for whatever this is.(:

I have a similar problem, i went for a run in august this year quite a tough run and immediately when i stopped i had a sharp pain in my lower right side. When i got home the pain got worse i couldnt sleep and a doctor came to see me at 3am and gave me some immodium and told me to go to the doctor in the morning.
My gp in the morning said my appendix area was very tender but didnt think it was about to burst and told me it was a stomach infection which should clear up in a few days, which thankfully it did.
Now 2 months on i have started getting dull pains in my lower right side again, where my appendix is, and occasionally sharp pains which are eased when i have bowel movement. i have been to doctor yesterday and i am having blood and stool tests done, he said basically rumbling appendix does not exsist. I wish it was my appendix and personally to me it feels like it is, as i am really scared now that i may have something a whole lot scary like, bowel cancer or crohns disease!!
any help or wisdom about my symptoms greatly appreciated

I have a similar problem, i went for a run in august this year quite a tough run and immediately when i stopped i had a sharp pain in my lower right side. When i got home the pain got worse i couldnt sleep and a doctor came to see me at 3am and gave me some immodium and told me to go to the doctor in the morning.
My gp in the morning said my appendix area was very tender but didnt think it was about to burst and told me it was a stomach infection which should clear up in a few days, which thankfully it did.
Now 2 months on i have started getting dull pains in my lower right side again, where my appendix is, and occasionally sharp pains which are eased when i have bowel movement. i have been to doctor yesterday and i am having blood and stool tests done, he said basically rumbling appendix does not exsist. I wish it was my appendix and personally to me it feels like it is, as i am really scared now that i may have something a whole lot scary like, bowel cancer or crohns disease!!
any help or wisdom about my symptoms greatly appreciated

Have you been tested for Crohn's disease? The reason I ask is that with irritable bowel syndrome there is NO inflammation and the fever, night sweats, right sided pain and waking up to go to the bathroom are not normal are classic Crohn's symptoms.

You have had a pretty extensive work-up and I'm not sure if you have had this test called a "small bowel follow through". This is where you drink barium and it shows your small bowel. The most common site for Crohn's pain to hit is the ileum, where the large and small intestine meet and many times the dr. can't get a colonoscopy to that spot. There is also a camera pill that you can swallow that shows the small intestine. Good luck and I hope you find an answer soon =)

Have you been tested for Crohn's disease? The reason I ask is that with irritable bowel syndrome there is NO inflammation and the fever, night sweats, right sided pain and waking up to go to the bathroom are not normal are classic Crohn's symptoms.

You have had a pretty extensive work-up and I'm not sure if you have had this test called a "small bowel follow through". This is where you drink barium and it shows your small bowel. The most common site for Crohn's pain to hit is the ileum, where the large and small intestine meet and many times the dr. can't get a colonoscopy to that spot. There is also a camera pill that you can swallow that shows the small intestine. Good luck and I hope you find an answer soon =)

I have to say that this forum was a lifesafer-literally. I want to explain my situation and I hope that this helps other people who are in desperate need of help.

Two months ago I started having horrible pains in my right side. I thought that I was just having problems with an ovarian cyst because I have had problems with them in the past. After about a week of really intense pain it started to get worse and I decided to go to the ER. When I got there they immediately started telling me that it was probably appendicitis but they needed to do some testing. They did a CT, full blood work,Ultrasound, urine work-up and gave me pain meds through an IV. The doc said that the ultrasound showed that I had a uterun fibroid but that it was very small and that it would not be causing that much pain. She gave me the option of staying a day or two for pain control. I left that night still in pain and frustrated because I didn't have any answers. After another two weeks of pain I went to my OBGYN who had done a surgery on a ovarian cyst before. She said that she would do a laproscopy even though she didnt think she would find anything. I said I wanted to wait and see if the pain went away. The pain got progressively worse. I have never felt so much pain in my life and I was completly unable to walk or work. I would be fine and then I would have a pain attack and it would literally send me down to the floor crying. Five days after my visit with the OBGYN I called her and begged for surgery. I had the laproscopy two days later. She took pics of the ovaries, appendix and the area around it. She said that everything looked good and she wasn't able to fit anything. I came out of surgery very upset after learning that nothing had been done to help me.

I then spend another two weeks in horrible pain and finally decided to find the answer myself. I spent hours upon hours searching the internet comparing my symptoms to those of others with similar symptoms and stories. I found this site and a few others that seemed to talk about almost the exact same thing I had been dealing with. I thought that I had chronic appendicitis and I decided that I needed to find a doctor that would not only listen to me but would do elective surgery on me. As most of you know chronic appendicitis is very hard to diagnose and to get doctors to agree with that diagnosis. I took about 25 pages of reports and info showing that other doctors had seen this same type of thing with others.

I went to my family doctor and I described my long situation, the info I had found on line and my family history. In 1985 my mother had almost the exact same situation and she ended up going to the mayo clinic where a doctor had said that he wanted to take the appendix out just to see if that was it. She was instantly better after having the appendix removed. I explained this to my family doctor and she said she had seen a couple cases similar to this and she referred me to a surgeon.

I went to the surgeon the next day. I brought all the test results from the ER, the pics from the larposcopy, the OBGYN's surgery notes and all the stuff I found online. I explained the whole situation while he listened and his answer was that there was absolutely nothing wrong with my appendix. I asked him what he thought it was and he had absolutely no answers and no other tests for me to do in order to find an aswer. After explaining about my mothers situation (she was with me) he said that her doctor was a bad surgeon and should have had his license taken away because he had made a bad decision. I told him that if he wouldnt take my appendix out that I would find another doctor that would so it wasnt going to stop me, it would just cause me more pain and time. After arguing back and forth he finally threw his hands in the air and said that he would take my appendix out but he was completly against this and that it would not fix anything. His comment was, "if I am going to start taking out organs that are not having problems why dont I just go in and take our your gallbladder and anything else I see while I am in there." I then said, "why the hell dont you, maybe I will feel better then!"

I was scheduled for a laproscopy appendectomy three days later. He came to see me before surgery and kept repeating that this was a waste of time and money and that nothing was wrong with my appendix. After surgery he came out and spoke to my parents and said that the appendix was perfect and that this was NOT the problem at all. I would be in just as much pain as I was before and we had wasted his time.

A week later while recovering at home I noticed that I had NOT had the pain anymore and that besides healing from surgery I felt much better. I called the doctors office to get the results of the pathology report from my appendix. I was so happy to hear the results that I started to cry while on the phone. The report showed that part of the appendix was hemmoraging and was leaking pus and fluid into my abdominal cavity. The lymph nodes were very swollen and that it appeared that I had ACUTE APPENDICITIS probably a month or two ago but that it had somewhat resolved itself. The pain I was feeling was not only my appendix swelling but the fluid being leaked into my body. I almost fell out of my chair when the nurse told me that based on the report I was very lucky that I had the surgery when I did. She said that I would have ended up with it rupturing and having a serious infection which could be deadly. She said that if would have only been a few days or weeks until I would have really been in bad shape.

So, I find out that after the ER told me I was fine, the OBGYN had taken pics saying it was fine and the surgeon who took it out told me it was fine, IT WAS NOT FINE AND I HAD ACUTE APPENDICITIS FOR ALMOST TWO MONTHS!!!

I have a post-op appointment with the surgeon next week and I can not tell you how excited I am going to be to tell him to go to hell and that he needs to listen to his patients.

I wanted to share my story with you because it is so frustrating when you know that something is wrong and nobody will believe you. Through this ordeal I ended up in the ER four times and got the same answer every single time- your fine, go home. Please take your health in your own hands and fight for your rights. I am happy to say that it has all ended well, but there was no reason for me to go through two months of excruicating pain and suffering because nobody would listen to me.

If anybody needs any advice or would like any more info from me please feel free to write me. It is because of this exact site and a few others that I was able to diagnose myself and search out the right answer. I could have died because nobody listened to me, they just blew me off. I hope this helps other people. By the way I am a 26 year old female. I think that doctors also dont listen to the compaints of women as much or they automatically assume that its a "womans problem". I had two surgeries in two weeks because of all this ordeal. BUT finally I am feeling great.

I have to say that this forum was a lifesafer-literally. I want to explain my situation and I hope that this helps other people who are in desperate need of help.

Two months ago I started having horrible pains in my right side. I thought that I was just having problems with an ovarian cyst because I have had problems with them in the past. After about a week of really intense pain it started to get worse and I decided to go to the ER. When I got there they immediately started telling me that it was probably appendicitis but they needed to do some testing. They did a CT, full blood work,Ultrasound, urine work-up and gave me pain meds through an IV. The doc said that the ultrasound showed that I had a uterun fibroid but that it was very small and that it would not be causing that much pain. She gave me the option of staying a day or two for pain control. I left that night still in pain and frustrated because I didn't have any answers. After another two weeks of pain I went to my OBGYN who had done a surgery on a ovarian cyst before. She said that she would do a laproscopy even though she didnt think she would find anything. I said I wanted to wait and see if the pain went away. The pain got progressively worse. I have never felt so much pain in my life and I was completly unable to walk or work. I would be fine and then I would have a pain attack and it would literally send me down to the floor crying. Five days after my visit with the OBGYN I called her and begged for surgery. I had the laproscopy two days later. She took pics of the ovaries, appendix and the area around it. She said that everything looked good and she wasn't able to fit anything. I came out of surgery very upset after learning that nothing had been done to help me.

I then spend another two weeks in horrible pain and finally decided to find the answer myself. I spent hours upon hours searching the internet comparing my symptoms to those of others with similar symptoms and stories. I found this site and a few others that seemed to talk about almost the exact same thing I had been dealing with. I thought that I had chronic appendicitis and I decided that I needed to find a doctor that would not only listen to me but would do elective surgery on me. As most of you know chronic appendicitis is very hard to diagnose and to get doctors to agree with that diagnosis. I took about 25 pages of reports and info showing that other doctors had seen this same type of thing with others.

I went to my family doctor and I described my long situation, the info I had found on line and my family history. In 1985 my mother had almost the exact same situation and she ended up going to the mayo clinic where a doctor had said that he wanted to take the appendix out just to see if that was it. She was instantly better after having the appendix removed. I explained this to my family doctor and she said she had seen a couple cases similar to this and she referred me to a surgeon.

I went to the surgeon the next day. I brought all the test results from the ER, the pics from the larposcopy, the OBGYN's surgery notes and all the stuff I found online. I explained the whole situation while he listened and his answer was that there was absolutely nothing wrong with my appendix. I asked him what he thought it was and he had absolutely no answers and no other tests for me to do in order to find an aswer. After explaining about my mothers situation (she was with me) he said that her doctor was a bad surgeon and should have had his license taken away because he had made a bad decision. I told him that if he wouldnt take my appendix out that I would find another doctor that would so it wasnt going to stop me, it would just cause me more pain and time. After arguing back and forth he finally threw his hands in the air and said that he would take my appendix out but he was completly against this and that it would not fix anything. His comment was, "if I am going to start taking out organs that are not having problems why dont I just go in and take our your gallbladder and anything else I see while I am in there." I then said, "why the hell dont you, maybe I will feel better then!"

I was scheduled for a laproscopy appendectomy three days later. He came to see me before surgery and kept repeating that this was a waste of time and money and that nothing was wrong with my appendix. After surgery he came out and spoke to my parents and said that the appendix was perfect and that this was NOT the problem at all. I would be in just as much pain as I was before and we had wasted his time.

A week later while recovering at home I noticed that I had NOT had the pain anymore and that besides healing from surgery I felt much better. I called the doctors office to get the results of the pathology report from my appendix. I was so happy to hear the results that I started to cry while on the phone. The report showed that part of the appendix was hemmoraging and was leaking pus and fluid into my abdominal cavity. The lymph nodes were very swollen and that it appeared that I had ACUTE APPENDICITIS probably a month or two ago but that it had somewhat resolved itself. The pain I was feeling was not only my appendix swelling but the fluid being leaked into my body. I almost fell out of my chair when the nurse told me that based on the report I was very lucky that I had the surgery when I did. She said that I would have ended up with it rupturing and having a serious infection which could be deadly. She said that if would have only been a few days or weeks until I would have really been in bad shape.

So, I find out that after the ER told me I was fine, the OBGYN had taken pics saying it was fine and the surgeon who took it out told me it was fine, IT WAS NOT FINE AND I HAD ACUTE APPENDICITIS FOR ALMOST TWO MONTHS!!!

I have a post-op appointment with the surgeon next week and I can not tell you how excited I am going to be to tell him to go to hell and that he needs to listen to his patients.

I wanted to share my story with you because it is so frustrating when you know that something is wrong and nobody will believe you. Through this ordeal I ended up in the ER four times and got the same answer every single time- your fine, go home. Please take your health in your own hands and fight for your rights. I am happy to say that it has all ended well, but there was no reason for me to go through two months of excruicating pain and suffering because nobody would listen to me.

If anybody needs any advice or would like any more info from me please feel free to write me. It is because of this exact site and a few others that I was able to diagnose myself and search out the right answer. I could have died because nobody listened to me, they just blew me off. I hope this helps other people. By the way I am a 26 year old female. I think that doctors also dont listen to the compaints of women as much or they automatically assume that its a "womans problem". I had two surgeries in two weeks because of all this ordeal. BUT finally I am feeling great.

Long story short.. I too had cronic pain for over 5 years, had all the tests in the world all normal and negitive. Finally had exploratory surgery and my apendix ruptured on the table for the 7th time. The Dr. discovered that over the past 5 years it had ruptured but healed itself to my stomach. He couldn't explain why it just did. I was never more thankful all my pain was gone. Good luck and never take " theres nothing wrong" til the pain is gone.
vickie

Long story short.. I too had cronic pain for over 5 years, had all the tests in the world all normal and negitive. Finally had exploratory surgery and my apendix ruptured on the table for the 7th time. The Dr. discovered that over the past 5 years it had ruptured but healed itself to my stomach. He couldn't explain why it just did. I was never more thankful all my pain was gone. Good luck and never take " theres nothing wrong" til the pain is gone.
vickie

I had the same problem in the past three years, starting with uncomfortable feeling in the upper abdomen, then nausea, vomiting, and the pain going down in right lower abdomen and around navel. Symptoms are resolving in maybe 48h. I had those attacks almost every 3-4 months in past three years, but with time they got very mild so usually when i get to the doctors they thought it's maybe ovulation, or some ovary cysts, urinary infections, kidney stones etc. I've done bunch of tests (CBC, urine, ultrasound, MRI) which showed nothing, everything was fine, but i still had pain, and starting to believe maybe I'm hypochondriac. Anyway month ago i had the attack, with severe pain, never felt like that before, with vomiting, high temperature, in the end my appendix got perforated and i went for an urgent surgery. Fortunately everything went fine, perforation was blocked by surrounding intestines so it didn't make any complication, i feel good now. Anyway everyone who has the same symptoms i am recommending you to take a seriously the problem, make some tests, at least CT scan, because consequences may be very serious.

I had the same problem in the past three years, starting with uncomfortable feeling in the upper abdomen, then nausea, vomiting, and the pain going down in right lower abdomen and around navel. Symptoms are resolving in maybe 48h. I had those attacks almost every 3-4 months in past three years, but with time they got very mild so usually when i get to the doctors they thought it's maybe ovulation, or some ovary cysts, urinary infections, kidney stones etc. I've done bunch of tests (CBC, urine, ultrasound, MRI) which showed nothing, everything was fine, but i still had pain, and starting to believe maybe I'm hypochondriac. Anyway month ago i had the attack, with severe pain, never felt like that before, with vomiting, high temperature, in the end my appendix got perforated and i went for an urgent surgery. Fortunately everything went fine, perforation was blocked by surrounding intestines so it didn't make any complication, i feel good now. Anyway everyone who has the same symptoms i am recommending you to take a seriously the problem, make some tests, at least CT scan, because consequences may be very serious.

Your story is SO similar to mine. A few months ago, my husband and I were camping deep in the woods in a pop up camper, two dogs, two kayaks, two bikes. I spent the weekend walking the dogs, biking, kayaking almost 24/7. The night before we were to leave, I woke up with excruciating pain on the right side. Thought I had just pulled a muscle and decided to suck it up until we got home in the morning. A five hour trip after my husband had to pack everything up and drive 2 hours. I was curled up in the front seat with a pillow. I could hardly walk for a week and was in major pain, but never thought to go to a doctor. Took some aspirin and pain went away.
A couple of months later similar symptoms reappeared again. I had a gyn appointment and mentioned to my doctor who thought I had just pulled a muscle, too. Took aspirin and pain went away.
But even people at work told me later that I always seemed tired, not quite right. A month after the second episode, I was at work and had a strange feeling on the right side. Not quite pain, but didn't feel right. I went home, and within an hour was doubled over in excruciating pain. Long story short, ended up in ER with acute appendicitis. Had a laporoscopy and woke up in ICU - the appendix had been leaking and was ready to rupture.
As a final note - I explained all my symptoms to the doctors and colleagues at work (I work in a health oriented environment) and ALL of them said that the previous incidents were unrelated. I don't believe them and am sure that I experienced chronic appendicitis. I am 8 weeks after surgery, and have no pain and lots more energy. Interesting thing the doctor told me was that he had a hard time finding the appendix. It was shorter and stubbier than expected; about half of the normal length.

Your story is SO similar to mine. A few months ago, my husband and I were camping deep in the woods in a pop up camper, two dogs, two kayaks, two bikes. I spent the weekend walking the dogs, biking, kayaking almost 24/7. The night before we were to leave, I woke up with excruciating pain on the right side. Thought I had just pulled a muscle and decided to suck it up until we got home in the morning. A five hour trip after my husband had to pack everything up and drive 2 hours. I was curled up in the front seat with a pillow. I could hardly walk for a week and was in major pain, but never thought to go to a doctor. Took some aspirin and pain went away.
A couple of months later similar symptoms reappeared again. I had a gyn appointment and mentioned to my doctor who thought I had just pulled a muscle, too. Took aspirin and pain went away.
But even people at work told me later that I always seemed tired, not quite right. A month after the second episode, I was at work and had a strange feeling on the right side. Not quite pain, but didn't feel right. I went home, and within an hour was doubled over in excruciating pain. Long story short, ended up in ER with acute appendicitis. Had a laporoscopy and woke up in ICU - the appendix had been leaking and was ready to rupture.
As a final note - I explained all my symptoms to the doctors and colleagues at work (I work in a health oriented environment) and ALL of them said that the previous incidents were unrelated. I don't believe them and am sure that I experienced chronic appendicitis. I am 8 weeks after surgery, and have no pain and lots more energy. Interesting thing the doctor told me was that he had a hard time finding the appendix. It was shorter and stubbier than expected; about half of the normal length.

i have had pain in my stomach for almost 5 years now and every one call me crazy they think i am making all is pain up and when i go to the er they think iam there for drugs they are wrong i have chronic appendicitis and ibs but what hurts most is the side where the appdix is

i have had pain in my stomach for almost 5 years now and every one call me crazy they think i am making all is pain up and when i go to the er they think iam there for drugs they are wrong i have chronic appendicitis and ibs but what hurts most is the side where the appdix is

It seems to me that doctors think they sell all know all. I am 39 years old. I have had painful intercouse for over a decade. Five different doctors in the past 12 years told me that only a hysterdectomy. I also had the severe pain in the right side along with a dull burning pain. I was told it was endometrosis, overian cysts, and just in my head. One doc said he could cut the nerves going to the area. So feel nothing instead of pain. No thanks.I finally had a hys, ovaries and all at the age of 35.

Yesterday, I saw my gp. I had not told her of the painful intercourse. At this point in my life, I thought I had to live with it.I went in for the abdomin pain. I explained my symptoms. Then, I told her of the painful sex. She just looked at me. She said she thought I have chronic appendicis. I just looked at her. Apparently, she had a similar experience herself years ago.

I about cried. I am blessed to have found her. All these years of pain, surgery, and frustration could be over. She said now the problem is finding a surgen to take out my appendix. I am concerned he is going to think we are both crazy. He'll wonder how I could be dx without running every new test in the book. I've had them all before. all coming back normal.

I have had the colonoscpy, barium test, CT, laproscopy explorotory before. The only thing I was told I had was IBS. I am very fortunate to have the husband I've got. I probably would have been divorced long ago. I was lucky to have my daughter.

My point is don't give up. Don't settle for answers you are not comfortable with. Don't stop with 1 dr's dx. Don't let them tell you, It's all in your head. I was at my end when I had my hys. I had a lot of depression. I didn't feel like a complete woman. It's taken it's toll, but I finally see light at the end of a very long tunnel.

It seems to me that doctors think they sell all know all. I am 39 years old. I have had painful intercouse for over a decade. Five different doctors in the past 12 years told me that only a hysterdectomy. I also had the severe pain in the right side along with a dull burning pain. I was told it was endometrosis, overian cysts, and just in my head. One doc said he could cut the nerves going to the area. So feel nothing instead of pain. No thanks.I finally had a hys, ovaries and all at the age of 35.

Yesterday, I saw my gp. I had not told her of the painful intercourse. At this point in my life, I thought I had to live with it.I went in for the abdomin pain. I explained my symptoms. Then, I told her of the painful sex. She just looked at me. She said she thought I have chronic appendicis. I just looked at her. Apparently, she had a similar experience herself years ago.

I about cried. I am blessed to have found her. All these years of pain, surgery, and frustration could be over. She said now the problem is finding a surgen to take out my appendix. I am concerned he is going to think we are both crazy. He'll wonder how I could be dx without running every new test in the book. I've had them all before. all coming back normal.

I have had the colonoscpy, barium test, CT, laproscopy explorotory before. The only thing I was told I had was IBS. I am very fortunate to have the husband I've got. I probably would have been divorced long ago. I was lucky to have my daughter.

My point is don't give up. Don't settle for answers you are not comfortable with. Don't stop with 1 dr's dx. Don't let them tell you, It's all in your head. I was at my end when I had my hys. I had a lot of depression. I didn't feel like a complete woman. It's taken it's toll, but I finally see light at the end of a very long tunnel.

Yes, chronic appendicitis does exist, I had it. Essentially I had unexplained abdominal pain and a few acute episodes over the years which somehow resolved by themselves. In the last months, though, I was having RLQ pain right after eating and randomly several times a day. The partially blocked appendix was found after upper GI X-ray with small bowel follow-through, and was confirmed by Doppler ultrasound two months later. The chronic appendicitis was confirmed at surgery (appendix was long, scarred, filled with fecal matter, and had adhesions).
The story is long, see more details here, towards end of thread:
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Gastroenterology/roundworms-Ascaris--elevated-monocytes--eosinophils--abdominal-pelvic-pain/show/1369187?personal_page_id=903718#post_6249026

Oh my ! I want to hug you because you basically gave people an great deal of insight about a test they need to take to help determine the cause! I too have been so sick I cannot even begin to tell you my life has been upside down.. Started with pressure in my stomach pressure under my rib cage, nausea, chills fever dizziness, sleep deprivation from the pain. rash on my face , sometimes pressure on the right side sometimes lower right quadrant . The GI specialist didn't find anything so he told me maybe I have anxiety ..I'm semi retired and young I have zero anxiety! . I was diagnosed with SIBO ...seriously my symptoms seemed way beyond SIBO. I kept seeing more DR.ND chiropractor that maybe my alignment was off, I saw energy workers, Ayurvedic dr.Chinese med dr you name it I saw them!! Until my relative who is an surgeon MD suggested a Upper GI Baruim with a Follow Through and poof the answer appears Appendix ..It took almost eleven months to figure it out and I actally read that appendicitis is caused by protozoa I wish I could recall the exact species it is two words and that it can be easily cured. Can you IMAGINE That ? Just what if you went to the ER /DR only once and they checked you for that and gave you some pills and it kills the protozoa. WOW/ ,Most doctor have no idea it seems so unbelievable the pain and suffering ...the time and energy that some of you poor people have suffered my gosh , my heart really goes out to you! I'm so done with all the pain and suffering . Once they nailed it I was at the end of my rope well I was happy that it was finally over

Oh my ! I want to hug you because you basically gave people an great deal of insight about a test they need to take to help determine the cause! I too have been so sick I cannot even begin to tell you my life has been upside down.. Started with pressure in my stomach pressure under my rib cage, nausea, chills fever dizziness, sleep deprivation from the pain. rash on my face , sometimes pressure on the right side sometimes lower right quadrant . The GI specialist didn't find anything so he told me maybe I have anxiety ..I'm semi retired and young I have zero anxiety! . I was diagnosed with SIBO ...seriously my symptoms seemed way beyond SIBO. I kept seeing more DR.ND chiropractor that maybe my alignment was off, I saw energy workers, Ayurvedic dr.Chinese med dr you name it I saw them!! Until my relative who is an surgeon MD suggested a Upper GI Baruim with a Follow Through and poof the answer appears Appendix ..It took almost eleven months to figure it out and I actally read that appendicitis is caused by protozoa I wish I could recall the exact species it is two words and that it can be easily cured. Can you IMAGINE That ? Just what if you went to the ER /DR only once and they checked you for that and gave you some pills and it kills the protozoa. WOW/ ,Most doctor have no idea it seems so unbelievable the pain and suffering ...the time and energy that some of you poor people have suffered my gosh , my heart really goes out to you! I'm so done with all the pain and suffering . Once they nailed it I was at the end of my rope well I was happy that it was finally over

I have a 7 yr. old nephew with similar symptoms, extreme abdominal pain followed by vomiting then fever on episodes of once or twice a year until this weekend. He is in the hospital at this time with episodes every 4 hours or so. The pain and fever is relieved with medication. Once the medication wears off, another episode starts.

Doctors cannot find a cause since all tests including blood work look normal. They are ruling out appendicitis since they claim that medication would not ease the pain if it was appendicitis.

I have a 7 yr. old nephew with similar symptoms, extreme abdominal pain followed by vomiting then fever on episodes of once or twice a year until this weekend. He is in the hospital at this time with episodes every 4 hours or so. The pain and fever is relieved with medication. Once the medication wears off, another episode starts.

Doctors cannot find a cause since all tests including blood work look normal. They are ruling out appendicitis since they claim that medication would not ease the pain if it was appendicitis.

Don't let them rule out Chronic Appendicitis. All tests, ultra sounds, CT scans, etc. look normal. Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, performs surgery on cases every month that other doctors pooh-pooh as non-existent. The laparoscopic surgery to remove the "normal" looking appendix can provide almost immediate relief, with pathology reports following a few days later to confirm/deny diagnosis. My friend's 10 year old daughter suffered severe pain for 15 weeks, not helped by home-town doctors, then slept through the night after surgery at Cleveland Clinic. For some reason part of the gastrointerology community refuses to acknowledge chronic appendicitis.

Don't let them rule out Chronic Appendicitis. All tests, ultra sounds, CT scans, etc. look normal. Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, performs surgery on cases every month that other doctors pooh-pooh as non-existent. The laparoscopic surgery to remove the "normal" looking appendix can provide almost immediate relief, with pathology reports following a few days later to confirm/deny diagnosis. My friend's 10 year old daughter suffered severe pain for 15 weeks, not helped by home-town doctors, then slept through the night after surgery at Cleveland Clinic. For some reason part of the gastrointerology community refuses to acknowledge chronic appendicitis.

I am having the same problem with my son. LRQ pain for YEARS with no diagnosis. Some days he is OK, others he can't get out of bed, pain is usually worse early am to about lunch time. He has had several ~oscopies including the camera, 2 CTs both normal, barium, gastric emptying, etc. all normal and his ped GI wants me to take him for a psychological evaluation to see if it is anxiety. Meanwhile he cannot function and he is in legal trouble over school. Everywhere we go it is the same thing, we can't find anything wrong, his appendix is fine, etc. but he has been complaining of this pain since he was about 8 and he is now 16.

I am having the same problem with my son. LRQ pain for YEARS with no diagnosis. Some days he is OK, others he can't get out of bed, pain is usually worse early am to about lunch time. He has had several ~oscopies including the camera, 2 CTs both normal, barium, gastric emptying, etc. all normal and his ped GI wants me to take him for a psychological evaluation to see if it is anxiety. Meanwhile he cannot function and he is in legal trouble over school. Everywhere we go it is the same thing, we can't find anything wrong, his appendix is fine, etc. but he has been complaining of this pain since he was about 8 and he is now 16.

Who can we contact at Cleveland Clinic? Do you remember the Dr that helped you? I am desperate and also angry at his Ped GI that responds with "He doesn't have that!" every time I try to suggest something I have been reading about. He wants to just refer my son to a pain clinic. Ugh! I am near Knoxville but I will go to Ohio if that will put an end to this nightmare.

Who can we contact at Cleveland Clinic? Do you remember the Dr that helped you? I am desperate and also angry at his Ped GI that responds with "He doesn't have that!" every time I try to suggest something I have been reading about. He wants to just refer my son to a pain clinic. Ugh! I am near Knoxville but I will go to Ohio if that will put an end to this nightmare.

I started having pain on my right side below and to the right of my belly button in May 2011 which was misdiagnosed. The pain was the worst I have ever experienced. I was first diagnosed with cystitis, then IBS. I became really ill with it - fever and vomiting.

I had lots of trips to doctors and hospitals, and lots of tests. Scans didn't pick up anything and urine tests would always have blood and protein, which doctors said could mean any infection. They guessed gut or bladder infections.

Over 18 months the pain came and went. When it came, I would be in so much pain that I would be confined to my bed for days. I was prescribed increasingly strong painkillers while doctors palmed me off with more and more antibiotics, telling me to keep an eye on it. At my worst points, I lost 10 kg in weight, collapsed while at a work conference in Sweden and suffered depression.

I discovered forums like these and they really helped me. I looked into chronic appendicitis and took journal papers to my GP to beg her to consider the possibility. She said all the doctors in the surgery had a meeting about me and agreed there was no such thing!

I eventually convinced a doctor to take my appendix out while they were doing a diagnostic laparoscopy. (By the way, a gynaecologist was doing this - I was a 25 year old woman and so doctors automatically assumed the problem was gynaecological when they ran out of their other options). When I woke up after the surgery, doctors said the same thing to me, that the appendix looked fine but they'd taken it out anyway. They also found adhesions - scar tissue that was sticking my intestines together that resulted from a nasty infection.

I just got the results of the lab analysis of my appendix. It was appendicitis! The appendix was blocked, and the cells were all transformed, as if the tissue was trying to heal. I have spoken to people since and they have all said I was very lucky my appendix did not burst over the 18 months of recurring appendicitis.

I just wanted to thank you all for sharing your stories, and giving me the drive to look into this, and push to get it done. You really do need to take your health into your own hands and push for treatment. It's difficult when you're very sick but it really pays off.

I started having pain on my right side below and to the right of my belly button in May 2011 which was misdiagnosed. The pain was the worst I have ever experienced. I was first diagnosed with cystitis, then IBS. I became really ill with it - fever and vomiting.

I had lots of trips to doctors and hospitals, and lots of tests. Scans didn't pick up anything and urine tests would always have blood and protein, which doctors said could mean any infection. They guessed gut or bladder infections.

Over 18 months the pain came and went. When it came, I would be in so much pain that I would be confined to my bed for days. I was prescribed increasingly strong painkillers while doctors palmed me off with more and more antibiotics, telling me to keep an eye on it. At my worst points, I lost 10 kg in weight, collapsed while at a work conference in Sweden and suffered depression.

I discovered forums like these and they really helped me. I looked into chronic appendicitis and took journal papers to my GP to beg her to consider the possibility. She said all the doctors in the surgery had a meeting about me and agreed there was no such thing!

I eventually convinced a doctor to take my appendix out while they were doing a diagnostic laparoscopy. (By the way, a gynaecologist was doing this - I was a 25 year old woman and so doctors automatically assumed the problem was gynaecological when they ran out of their other options). When I woke up after the surgery, doctors said the same thing to me, that the appendix looked fine but they'd taken it out anyway. They also found adhesions - scar tissue that was sticking my intestines together that resulted from a nasty infection.

I just got the results of the lab analysis of my appendix. It was appendicitis! The appendix was blocked, and the cells were all transformed, as if the tissue was trying to heal. I have spoken to people since and they have all said I was very lucky my appendix did not burst over the 18 months of recurring appendicitis.

I just wanted to thank you all for sharing your stories, and giving me the drive to look into this, and push to get it done. You really do need to take your health into your own hands and push for treatment. It's difficult when you're very sick but it really pays off.

When I was a in the ER an older doctor that had worked in the ER for eons gave me the statistics on how many people go to the ER with low right quadrant pain and have appendicitis and the appendix is removed . And how many people actually are sent away because the scan does not show that it is NOT inflammed enough so a large number of people sent away return to the ER months later with APPENDICITIS! So the ER doctor that work there may very well know they will see you back
Do not suffer it is there job to help us get well and get to the bottom of the issue.

When I was a in the ER an older doctor that had worked in the ER for eons gave me the statistics on how many people go to the ER with low right quadrant pain and have appendicitis and the appendix is removed . And how many people actually are sent away because the scan does not show that it is NOT inflammed enough so a large number of people sent away return to the ER months later with APPENDICITIS! So the ER doctor that work there may very well know they will see you back
Do not suffer it is there job to help us get well and get to the bottom of the issue.

Thanks for your post it gives me hope . I think I might be begging my doctor to have my appendix removed he did not seem so hot on the idea to begin with but I feel like I'm on my death bed. I had so many tests and then I had exploratory laprascopic surgery two small ovaries, but the dr did not think it was causing my issue, She told me at this point it was reasonable to just ask the doctor to have my appendix removed, She told me that she saw tons of women come in super sick thinking it was a female issue which she ruled out , She told me that the medical doctor orders to have the appendix removed and then the patient returns to there life!

Thanks for your post it gives me hope . I think I might be begging my doctor to have my appendix removed he did not seem so hot on the idea to begin with but I feel like I'm on my death bed. I had so many tests and then I had exploratory laprascopic surgery two small ovaries, but the dr did not think it was causing my issue, She told me at this point it was reasonable to just ask the doctor to have my appendix removed, She told me that she saw tons of women come in super sick thinking it was a female issue which she ruled out , She told me that the medical doctor orders to have the appendix removed and then the patient returns to there life!

For 6 months, once per month I would have extreme "attacks" as I came to call them. It always started with stomach pains (all over the abdomen) that got increasingly worse throughout the day until I was spending the evenings curled up on my floor crying in pain and vomiting. These episodes would last 6-8 hours and I would wake up sore from vomiting, but like nothing had ever happened.

3 different times during these attacks I went to the ER where I was told I had GERD and/or Gastritis or IBS. I constantly keep track of my food intake and nothing ever seemed to trigger these attacks. They would happen every single month though and usually around the 20th (weird and probably coincidental I know). Doctors just kept telling me to take Prevacid or Prilosec and to limit greasy foods and alcohol. But these attacks kept happening.

My last trip to the ER, I demanded a full abdominal scan. I was naseous and vomiting all over the ER room, so they knew something was seriously wrong. They started giving me antibiotics and pain killers right away. Doctors came in right after the scan and said they were taking me in to remove my appendix. After the surgery, I was told my appendix was "completely necrotic." Dead as dead can be. They also told me all my previous pains had nothing to do with my dead appendix and were completely unrelated. I know this to be false, because the pains were the EXACT SAME EACH AND EVERY TIME. The only difference this trip to the hospital was that they actually did something about it and removed my appendix. I haven't had a single abdominal pain since. Chronic appendicitis is a very real situation.

For 6 months, once per month I would have extreme "attacks" as I came to call them. It always started with stomach pains (all over the abdomen) that got increasingly worse throughout the day until I was spending the evenings curled up on my floor crying in pain and vomiting. These episodes would last 6-8 hours and I would wake up sore from vomiting, but like nothing had ever happened.

3 different times during these attacks I went to the ER where I was told I had GERD and/or Gastritis or IBS. I constantly keep track of my food intake and nothing ever seemed to trigger these attacks. They would happen every single month though and usually around the 20th (weird and probably coincidental I know). Doctors just kept telling me to take Prevacid or Prilosec and to limit greasy foods and alcohol. But these attacks kept happening.

My last trip to the ER, I demanded a full abdominal scan. I was naseous and vomiting all over the ER room, so they knew something was seriously wrong. They started giving me antibiotics and pain killers right away. Doctors came in right after the scan and said they were taking me in to remove my appendix. After the surgery, I was told my appendix was "completely necrotic." Dead as dead can be. They also told me all my previous pains had nothing to do with my dead appendix and were completely unrelated. I know this to be false, because the pains were the EXACT SAME EACH AND EVERY TIME. The only difference this trip to the hospital was that they actually did something about it and removed my appendix. I haven't had a single abdominal pain since. Chronic appendicitis is a very real situation.

Your story is very similar to mine. I suffered with pain in my abdomen for approximately 10 years, been through every test possible with results of nothing wrong. I do get ovarian cysts, but all along I thought it was my appendix. I had laparoscopy surgery two years ago to see what was going on they took pictures of my appendix and stated they were good plus all the cysts had already burst so they wouldn't take anything out. I had asked for a hysterectomy and for them to remove my appendix. They did nothing. This past weekend I started getting pain on Friday but didn't go in because everytime I have they do nothing. Sunday after getting out of the shower I decided I needed to go in cuz the pain was so bad. The Dr. came in and saw me and as soon as he felt my abdomen he figured it was my appendix. I told him I have been suffering for years with this. He stated that he didn't think I had chronic appendicitis over the years that it had to be something else. He ordered a CT scan and when the results came back it said I have chronic appendicitis. He couldn't believe that no one would have removed them in all these years. I was sent to a hospital where they would do the surgery. I had to argue with the surgeon to take them out. He didn't think it would help and wanted to admit me and run a bunch of tests. I refused stating that I have had all those tests done and they find nothing. I stood my ground and had the surgery. He came in the next morning to check on me and was shocked when I told him I had no pain. He said my appendix appeared to look normal and didn't think that was the problem. He also said that I was full of cysts and that I need a hysterectomy. I told him I tried to have them do that 2 years ago and no one would listen. Now maybe they will, so once I get healed up from this surgery I will go have a hysterectomy. Sometimes it helps to stand up for yourself after all no one knows your body more than you do!

Your story is very similar to mine. I suffered with pain in my abdomen for approximately 10 years, been through every test possible with results of nothing wrong. I do get ovarian cysts, but all along I thought it was my appendix. I had laparoscopy surgery two years ago to see what was going on they took pictures of my appendix and stated they were good plus all the cysts had already burst so they wouldn't take anything out. I had asked for a hysterectomy and for them to remove my appendix. They did nothing. This past weekend I started getting pain on Friday but didn't go in because everytime I have they do nothing. Sunday after getting out of the shower I decided I needed to go in cuz the pain was so bad. The Dr. came in and saw me and as soon as he felt my abdomen he figured it was my appendix. I told him I have been suffering for years with this. He stated that he didn't think I had chronic appendicitis over the years that it had to be something else. He ordered a CT scan and when the results came back it said I have chronic appendicitis. He couldn't believe that no one would have removed them in all these years. I was sent to a hospital where they would do the surgery. I had to argue with the surgeon to take them out. He didn't think it would help and wanted to admit me and run a bunch of tests. I refused stating that I have had all those tests done and they find nothing. I stood my ground and had the surgery. He came in the next morning to check on me and was shocked when I told him I had no pain. He said my appendix appeared to look normal and didn't think that was the problem. He also said that I was full of cysts and that I need a hysterectomy. I told him I tried to have them do that 2 years ago and no one would listen. Now maybe they will, so once I get healed up from this surgery I will go have a hysterectomy. Sometimes it helps to stand up for yourself after all no one knows your body more than you do!

Exactly. We know our bodies better than any doctor. My surgeons and doctors told me after my appendectomy that my previous pains and stomach attacks were not related to my appendix because appendicitis is "acute" and manifests in 12-18 hours. I said "but how could that be? I've had the exact same pains/attcks every single month for 6 months and as soon as you remove my appendix I am completely cured. Yet those previous pains/attacks had nothing to do with my appendix?" WRONG. My stomach attacks were literally ruining my life. I am so glad they finally removed my appendix.

Exactly. We know our bodies better than any doctor. My surgeons and doctors told me after my appendectomy that my previous pains and stomach attacks were not related to my appendix because appendicitis is "acute" and manifests in 12-18 hours. I said "but how could that be? I've had the exact same pains/attcks every single month for 6 months and as soon as you remove my appendix I am completely cured. Yet those previous pains/attacks had nothing to do with my appendix?" WRONG. My stomach attacks were literally ruining my life. I am so glad they finally removed my appendix.

Hi,
Echoing most people's symptoms, but I'm at the end of my tether after 8 years of chronic pain, sometimes worse than others and recently very bad again, having had trips to the ER with nothing more than "you might have a bladder infection" but they couldn't find anything wrong? Anyway I'm determined to get this sorted and convince a surgeon to take my appendix out! What were the journal documents you took to the Doctor? I'm doing some research now, but if you have some links that could help, that would be wonderful :)

Hi,
Echoing most people's symptoms, but I'm at the end of my tether after 8 years of chronic pain, sometimes worse than others and recently very bad again, having had trips to the ER with nothing more than "you might have a bladder infection" but they couldn't find anything wrong? Anyway I'm determined to get this sorted and convince a surgeon to take my appendix out! What were the journal documents you took to the Doctor? I'm doing some research now, but if you have some links that could help, that would be wonderful :)

I just had my appendix out 4 weeks ago and the diagnosis came back :acute and chronic appendicitis". At my post op last week, my surgeon said, "Your stomach has been bothering you for awhile, hasn't it." I told him that it's been bothering me for most of my life off and on. I'm 61 and my first attack was in high school. My doctor then thought it might be an appendicitis and decided to just watch it since I didn't have all the classic symptoms, only the stomach pain.

Long story short, I've had a few attacks through the years and I would just tough it out to see if it got worse or would go away. For the last few years, my stomach was uncomfortable almost all of the time. I was beginning to think I had cancer of the stomach or something terrible like that. The last episode started out the same but just wouldn't go away. I didn't have a fever, was only slightly nauseous, my white blood count was normal, and the pain was more on the left side of my naval and radiated up through my heart and into my left kidney. I thought I was either having a heart attack or some kind of other organ problem.

After hours of tying to tough it out I finally went to the doctor. She checked for pain in the right side and it hurt much less than the left side when she pushed around so she sent me for a cat scan. When the results came back, it showed my appendix was 3X enlarged and was long. They said it was an early appendicitis and it needed to come out.

What I learned from all of this, is if you have any kind of acute pain anywhere in the abdomen, and you don't fit any of the classic symptoms of an appendicitis, it still could be an appendicitis. Find a doctor you can trust and takes you serious. So yes, as diagnosed from the post op lab report, there is such as thing as chronic appendicitis.

I just had my appendix out 4 weeks ago and the diagnosis came back :acute and chronic appendicitis". At my post op last week, my surgeon said, "Your stomach has been bothering you for awhile, hasn't it." I told him that it's been bothering me for most of my life off and on. I'm 61 and my first attack was in high school. My doctor then thought it might be an appendicitis and decided to just watch it since I didn't have all the classic symptoms, only the stomach pain.

Long story short, I've had a few attacks through the years and I would just tough it out to see if it got worse or would go away. For the last few years, my stomach was uncomfortable almost all of the time. I was beginning to think I had cancer of the stomach or something terrible like that. The last episode started out the same but just wouldn't go away. I didn't have a fever, was only slightly nauseous, my white blood count was normal, and the pain was more on the left side of my naval and radiated up through my heart and into my left kidney. I thought I was either having a heart attack or some kind of other organ problem.

After hours of tying to tough it out I finally went to the doctor. She checked for pain in the right side and it hurt much less than the left side when she pushed around so she sent me for a cat scan. When the results came back, it showed my appendix was 3X enlarged and was long. They said it was an early appendicitis and it needed to come out.

What I learned from all of this, is if you have any kind of acute pain anywhere in the abdomen, and you don't fit any of the classic symptoms of an appendicitis, it still could be an appendicitis. Find a doctor you can trust and takes you serious. So yes, as diagnosed from the post op lab report, there is such as thing as chronic appendicitis.

Our 10 year old son suffered for weeks with exactly the same symptoms everyone here is describing. When I finally took him to the local Children's Hospital ER for the 3rd time (after countless dr. visits on the side and every test in the book), the finally admitted him because he had lost five pounds in three weeks and looked terrible - healthy kids are not supposed to lose weight because they cannot eat! Anyway, the staff was amazing and promised they would figure out what was wrong before they sent him home. But, when all tests showed nothing to be wrong, they scratched their heads in wonder. By this time, the surgeons decided to do exploratory surgery - while the gastro doctor was convinced it was his appendix, the surgeons disagreed completely. But, the agreed to go in to "check it out". Well, low and behold, it was his appendix AND a bowel stone. It was a horrible, terrible journey and we are SO glad we fought for surgery. As soon as he awoke from surgery, the pain he had been suffering was gone! There IS A SUCH THINGS AS CHRONIC APPENDICITIS - our son lived it and we witnessed it.

Our 10 year old son suffered for weeks with exactly the same symptoms everyone here is describing. When I finally took him to the local Children's Hospital ER for the 3rd time (after countless dr. visits on the side and every test in the book), the finally admitted him because he had lost five pounds in three weeks and looked terrible - healthy kids are not supposed to lose weight because they cannot eat! Anyway, the staff was amazing and promised they would figure out what was wrong before they sent him home. But, when all tests showed nothing to be wrong, they scratched their heads in wonder. By this time, the surgeons decided to do exploratory surgery - while the gastro doctor was convinced it was his appendix, the surgeons disagreed completely. But, the agreed to go in to "check it out". Well, low and behold, it was his appendix AND a bowel stone. It was a horrible, terrible journey and we are SO glad we fought for surgery. As soon as he awoke from surgery, the pain he had been suffering was gone! There IS A SUCH THINGS AS CHRONIC APPENDICITIS - our son lived it and we witnessed it.

Our 10 year old son suffered for weeks with exactly the same symptoms everyone here is describing. When I finally took him to the local Children's Hospital ER for the 3rd time (after countless dr. visits on the side and every test in the book), the finally admitted him because he had lost five pounds in three weeks and looked terrible - healthy kids are not supposed to lose weight because they cannot eat! Anyway, the staff was amazing and promised they would figure out what was wrong before they sent him home. But, when all tests showed nothing to be wrong, they scratched their heads in wonder. By this time, the surgeons decided to do exploratory surgery - while the gastro doctor was convinced it was his appendix, the surgeons disagreed completely. But, the agreed to go in to "check it out". Well, low and behold, it was his appendix AND a bowel stone. It was a horrible, terrible journey and we are SO glad we fought for surgery. As soon as he awoke from surgery, the pain he had been suffering was gone! There IS A SUCH THINGS AS CHRONIC APPENDICITIS - our son lived it and we witnessed it.

Our 12 year old daughter just had a similar experience. Acute abdominal pain in her RLQ, constant nausea and zero appetite. The first time we were at Children's ER, the surgeon was ready remove her appendix, but the ultrasound and blood tests all appeared normal. No surgery, sent home suggesting she had a stomach virus. After another trip to the ER and our pediatrician with "normal" CT scans and further blood work, we needed up back at the ER for a third time. This time she was admitted because of weight loss, and not having eaten in 12 days (she was drinking all her calories, couldn't get her to eat as it was too painful). After a colonoscopy and endoscopy were clear, our amazing GI suggested removing her appendix. The first surgeon wouldn't do it, so our GI found another surgeon (the original one we saw the very first time in the ER) who agreed to do an exploratory laparoscopy and appendectomy. Her appendix was 3 times longer than normal and contained excess amounts of eosinophils. Post surgery, all original symptoms have disappeared. Her appetite was back the next day! It was frustrating that it took so long to figure out. Don't give up! You know your child best. We thought it was appendicits from the 2nd day of her feeling ill. All the Drs seem to have been stumped, and had even suggested an eating disorder (ARVID) to us as the next possibility. They labeled her condition, Chronic eosinophilic appendicitis, and our surgeon said this is in fact not uncommon.

Our 10 year old son suffered for weeks with exactly the same symptoms everyone here is describing. When I finally took him to the local Children's Hospital ER for the 3rd time (after countless dr. visits on the side and every test in the book), the finally admitted him because he had lost five pounds in three weeks and looked terrible - healthy kids are not supposed to lose weight because they cannot eat! Anyway, the staff was amazing and promised they would figure out what was wrong before they sent him home. But, when all tests showed nothing to be wrong, they scratched their heads in wonder. By this time, the surgeons decided to do exploratory surgery - while the gastro doctor was convinced it was his appendix, the surgeons disagreed completely. But, the agreed to go in to "check it out". Well, low and behold, it was his appendix AND a bowel stone. It was a horrible, terrible journey and we are SO glad we fought for surgery. As soon as he awoke from surgery, the pain he had been suffering was gone! There IS A SUCH THINGS AS CHRONIC APPENDICITIS - our son lived it and we witnessed it.

I never post on these boards but, I have to say thank you. Your story has given me a new resolve to get an answer as to why I have been in pain for at least a year and a half. I have often wondered about chronic appendicitis. Now to get a doctor on board with me.

I never post on these boards but, I have to say thank you. Your story has given me a new resolve to get an answer as to why I have been in pain for at least a year and a half. I have often wondered about chronic appendicitis. Now to get a doctor on board with me.

I am reading this board with so much interest. I have had chronic TERRIBLE pain in the lower right. It started in 2006 with episodes that were so painful that I would go to the Jupiter Medical Center ER here in the Southeast portion of Florida (Palm Beach). Each and every time they find nothing wrong. Had a bout with sudden frank (bright red) rectal bleeding and had a colonoscopy only to find...nothing wrong. I have had terrible pain in the lower right in my groin area that extends through to my back (pain) and is in the lower right. They have never found a cause. I finally had to start taking pain meds to control the pain. Long story short, I have had several episodes with klebsiella bacteria and repeatedly have to battle infections with it throughout the year(s). Finally spoke to a doctor who told me about ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and the connection between AS and lower back and groin pain and was finally diagnosed with AS. This is a very complicated disease that can be confused for a lot of other medical issues, but you can read more here: http://www.spondylitis.org/about/complications.aspx I control the pain with pain medication which includes an anti-inflammatory (VERY important) and avoiding wheat and dairy or anything that causes irritable bowel symptoms. I also sleep a lot more. I cannot hold a normal job due to fatigue and pain, so I've had to adjust to that and I feel badly for my DH. I just hope that I help someone else with my comments. Last thing? Most laboratories do not test for klebsiella until every other bacteria is negative. Ask for it when having urine analyzed. It turns out that many AS patients have klebsiella and the klebsiella (bacteria) is causing the inflammation and it turns out that many AS patients have a genetic defect which leaves their bodies unable to protect against klebsiella so people are infected with klebsiella which then causes inflammation and over time becomes AS. Good luck everyone.

I am reading this board with so much interest. I have had chronic TERRIBLE pain in the lower right. It started in 2006 with episodes that were so painful that I would go to the Jupiter Medical Center ER here in the Southeast portion of Florida (Palm Beach). Each and every time they find nothing wrong. Had a bout with sudden frank (bright red) rectal bleeding and had a colonoscopy only to find...nothing wrong. I have had terrible pain in the lower right in my groin area that extends through to my back (pain) and is in the lower right. They have never found a cause. I finally had to start taking pain meds to control the pain. Long story short, I have had several episodes with klebsiella bacteria and repeatedly have to battle infections with it throughout the year(s). Finally spoke to a doctor who told me about ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and the connection between AS and lower back and groin pain and was finally diagnosed with AS. This is a very complicated disease that can be confused for a lot of other medical issues, but you can read more here: http://www.spondylitis.org/about/complications.aspx I control the pain with pain medication which includes an anti-inflammatory (VERY important) and avoiding wheat and dairy or anything that causes irritable bowel symptoms. I also sleep a lot more. I cannot hold a normal job due to fatigue and pain, so I've had to adjust to that and I feel badly for my DH. I just hope that I help someone else with my comments. Last thing? Most laboratories do not test for klebsiella until every other bacteria is negative. Ask for it when having urine analyzed. It turns out that many AS patients have klebsiella and the klebsiella (bacteria) is causing the inflammation and it turns out that many AS patients have a genetic defect which leaves their bodies unable to protect against klebsiella so people are infected with klebsiella which then causes inflammation and over time becomes AS. Good luck everyone.

I am in desperate need of help with my pains. I'm on my 5th year of chronic pains, digestive issues, lack of energy, and nothing showing up on tests.
I live in Alaska where I get free medical but the doctors here have completely outcast me for any sort of help. I have no money for other types of medical insurance and I have no idea what to tell these people to get any real aid. They laugh at the paperwork I bring in explaining chronic appendicitis and want to send me to pain management therapy for IBS. I've been given anti-depressants to see if its stress related. They do nothing and I'm running out of hope.
My lifestyle has a lot to do with labor jobs to make ends meet, but I feel bed ridden six days out of the week. I have a daughter to be born just next month and I can't even function in society anymore.

Any advice or connections to help me get rid of my appendix would be greatly appreciated.

I am in desperate need of help with my pains. I'm on my 5th year of chronic pains, digestive issues, lack of energy, and nothing showing up on tests.
I live in Alaska where I get free medical but the doctors here have completely outcast me for any sort of help. I have no money for other types of medical insurance and I have no idea what to tell these people to get any real aid. They laugh at the paperwork I bring in explaining chronic appendicitis and want to send me to pain management therapy for IBS. I've been given anti-depressants to see if its stress related. They do nothing and I'm running out of hope.
My lifestyle has a lot to do with labor jobs to make ends meet, but I feel bed ridden six days out of the week. I have a daughter to be born just next month and I can't even function in society anymore.

Any advice or connections to help me get rid of my appendix would be greatly appreciated.

My story is a little different as I have (luckily) not suffered from terrible pain until the last stage. I post here in case it helps others, and also it would be nice to hear of any similar cases.

I have lived as an invalid for over 20 years. Used to be very fit, danced all night.
After I had a child at 42 I got PID badly infected abdomen. Never really recovered.

I lived without pain but in extreme weakness, at worst able to walk only a few steps. I overcame this by sheer willpower, a strict diet, and careful exercise moving in bed if necessary. Until I could swim and walk and live a 75% normal life.
But never got better. Still weak, low stamina, poor immune system. In my 40s and 50s lived like 90. Motherhood blighted, but lucky to have devoted husband.
Tests showed nothing except 'a virus' in my blood.

I tried all kinds of things. Echinacea helped in large doses so I thought I just had damaged immune system. I did not know till much later immune system is about the gut.

I did have episodes of violent diarrhoaea. But not that often - once, maybe twice a year. Not enough to connect them. I thought it was just the weak immune system unable to fight off a bug.

Then - progress. I tried colonic irrigation (washing out my gut) with a nurse practitioner. Magic! As soon as it was done I felt 30 years younger, colours bright, food tasted wonderful, I felt sexual!!! I would crawl up the stairs to see her and bound down them like a happy kid!
But it wore off over several weeks and I'd go back again 8 -12 weeks later. Please note I was on very very healthy diet; the practitioner actually laughed at what came out of me it was so unusually good stuff!

All the time I was struggling with my weight. In spite of strict diet and exercise I was borderline obese. My abdomen and waist was very swollen as if pregnant, and very solid, firm to touch. Even when I did with great difficulty lose some weight my abdomen and waist was still swollen and hard.
Plus oedema - puffy hands, knuckles. ankles. I thought this and the belly was due to overweight. (But friend tells me now belly was wrong shape for obesity but she felt her opinion counted nothing against doctors)

I had several episodes of diarrhaeia in the last year.
Then 2 weeks ago blinding pain in abdomen. Into hospital, and appendix out.

Here's the thing - as soon as I woke up properly the next day, I felt the identical explosion of wellness, clear head, full on energy as I had had after every colonic irrigation. Identical.
This has stayed and not reduced. I wake up fast and fully awake like I haven't felt for 20 years. Food tastes fantastic, I can even see and hear better.
My abdominal swelling is going down rapidly. Weight is reducing daily without effort and not yet able to exercise! Knuckles less puffy.

This HAS to be the appendix. I believe it has been slowly giving a small leak of yuk into my body for 20 years or more. But I even stories here and elsewhere do not mention any story this long.
Yet the evidence is clear. I was behaving as if slightly poisoned for 20 years. Colonic irrigation relieved it temporarily for a few weeks; then appendectomy stopped it completely.

My story is a little different as I have (luckily) not suffered from terrible pain until the last stage. I post here in case it helps others, and also it would be nice to hear of any similar cases.

I have lived as an invalid for over 20 years. Used to be very fit, danced all night.
After I had a child at 42 I got PID badly infected abdomen. Never really recovered.

I lived without pain but in extreme weakness, at worst able to walk only a few steps. I overcame this by sheer willpower, a strict diet, and careful exercise moving in bed if necessary. Until I could swim and walk and live a 75% normal life.
But never got better. Still weak, low stamina, poor immune system. In my 40s and 50s lived like 90. Motherhood blighted, but lucky to have devoted husband.
Tests showed nothing except 'a virus' in my blood.

I tried all kinds of things. Echinacea helped in large doses so I thought I just had damaged immune system. I did not know till much later immune system is about the gut.

I did have episodes of violent diarrhoaea. But not that often - once, maybe twice a year. Not enough to connect them. I thought it was just the weak immune system unable to fight off a bug.

Then - progress. I tried colonic irrigation (washing out my gut) with a nurse practitioner. Magic! As soon as it was done I felt 30 years younger, colours bright, food tasted wonderful, I felt sexual!!! I would crawl up the stairs to see her and bound down them like a happy kid!
But it wore off over several weeks and I'd go back again 8 -12 weeks later. Please note I was on very very healthy diet; the practitioner actually laughed at what came out of me it was so unusually good stuff!

All the time I was struggling with my weight. In spite of strict diet and exercise I was borderline obese. My abdomen and waist was very swollen as if pregnant, and very solid, firm to touch. Even when I did with great difficulty lose some weight my abdomen and waist was still swollen and hard.
Plus oedema - puffy hands, knuckles. ankles. I thought this and the belly was due to overweight. (But friend tells me now belly was wrong shape for obesity but she felt her opinion counted nothing against doctors)

I had several episodes of diarrhaeia in the last year.
Then 2 weeks ago blinding pain in abdomen. Into hospital, and appendix out.

Here's the thing - as soon as I woke up properly the next day, I felt the identical explosion of wellness, clear head, full on energy as I had had after every colonic irrigation. Identical.
This has stayed and not reduced. I wake up fast and fully awake like I haven't felt for 20 years. Food tastes fantastic, I can even see and hear better.
My abdominal swelling is going down rapidly. Weight is reducing daily without effort and not yet able to exercise! Knuckles less puffy.

This HAS to be the appendix. I believe it has been slowly giving a small leak of yuk into my body for 20 years or more. But I even stories here and elsewhere do not mention any story this long.
Yet the evidence is clear. I was behaving as if slightly poisoned for 20 years. Colonic irrigation relieved it temporarily for a few weeks; then appendectomy stopped it completely.

I'm going thru something simular with my 11 year old daughter. How bad was your sons pain when this first started. Right now it's next to my daughters belly button. It hurts worse when she jumps or runs or when the area is pressed. She's occasionally nauseous but no vomiting. The pain has slowly gotten a little worse as the week goes on. All her blood work and ultrasound came back normal. My gut is telling me this is related to her appendics but the childrens hospital said it wasn't and they have no idea what is wrong. Thanks in advance.

I'm going thru something simular with my 11 year old daughter. How bad was your sons pain when this first started. Right now it's next to my daughters belly button. It hurts worse when she jumps or runs or when the area is pressed. She's occasionally nauseous but no vomiting. The pain has slowly gotten a little worse as the week goes on. All her blood work and ultrasound came back normal. My gut is telling me this is related to her appendics but the childrens hospital said it wasn't and they have no idea what is wrong. Thanks in advance.

Ok. I also am now more motivated to look into Chronic Appendicitis. I don't have the severe symptoms most of you describe. I have a dull ache in my right abdomen...feels like cramping. It's not a female thing since I am a guy. I get immediately worried about something worst like pancreatic cancer. I've only had one test so far, an abdominal ultrasound and everything seemed ok. I'm 50 so I', scheduling a routine colonoscopy.

Ok. I also am now more motivated to look into Chronic Appendicitis. I don't have the severe symptoms most of you describe. I have a dull ache in my right abdomen...feels like cramping. It's not a female thing since I am a guy. I get immediately worried about something worst like pancreatic cancer. I've only had one test so far, an abdominal ultrasound and everything seemed ok. I'm 50 so I', scheduling a routine colonoscopy.

I am hoping that this helps you. My daughter (11 yr) had chronic severe pain in the lower right side for three months. The pain was intermittent, and not constant. All of her tests were normal. The pain appeared like appendicitus, but all tests came up normal. She was missing school 2-3 days a week from the pain. We finally were fortunate enough to get doctors who really researched to find answers. She was diagnosed with appendicular colic. The appendix is basically having spasms and there is no test that shows it. It is not that common, but it does exist. The appendix appears perfectly normal, but the pain can be severe. Think back spasms only inside your body. My daughter had an appendectomy and has been pain free for 2 months. Do not give up. Keep going to emergency room when pain is severe. The doctors need to see the pain to help you.

I am hoping that this helps you. My daughter (11 yr) had chronic severe pain in the lower right side for three months. The pain was intermittent, and not constant. All of her tests were normal. The pain appeared like appendicitus, but all tests came up normal. She was missing school 2-3 days a week from the pain. We finally were fortunate enough to get doctors who really researched to find answers. She was diagnosed with appendicular colic. The appendix is basically having spasms and there is no test that shows it. It is not that common, but it does exist. The appendix appears perfectly normal, but the pain can be severe. Think back spasms only inside your body. My daughter had an appendectomy and has been pain free for 2 months. Do not give up. Keep going to emergency room when pain is severe. The doctors need to see the pain to help you.

Sometimes it is a female problem. I had the opposite. I was in severe pain, 10 on a 10 scale, and they kept telling me it was my bowel and sending me for tests, including a scope. It wasn't my bowel. It was my uterus. I suffered severe pain for 4 months before they finally figured out that it was Adenomyosis and damage from a uterine ablation I'd had a year earlier. I had to have a hysterectomy.

Sometimes it is a female problem. I had the opposite. I was in severe pain, 10 on a 10 scale, and they kept telling me it was my bowel and sending me for tests, including a scope. It wasn't my bowel. It was my uterus. I suffered severe pain for 4 months before they finally figured out that it was Adenomyosis and damage from a uterine ablation I'd had a year earlier. I had to have a hysterectomy.

Good day, I really wondered if the weapon that you obtained from your pathologist in where it was confirmed that you had acute appendicitis - had silenced your surgeon? That means 1% of his failure to accommodate you into being sympathetic became his worse nightmare. 99% of time he claimed to have studied and relied on evidences from your blood tests and other reports struck him too hard. Doctors have ears, but only a small number of doctors will be more willing to accommodate without hesitations...

So how far have you been doing just after the laparoscopy and did you ever have any no pains in the long period time? I really wonder....because I have similar experiences like yours but from different angles but with classic symptoms but rarely with no sign of fever....

Good day, I really wondered if the weapon that you obtained from your pathologist in where it was confirmed that you had acute appendicitis - had silenced your surgeon? That means 1% of his failure to accommodate you into being sympathetic became his worse nightmare. 99% of time he claimed to have studied and relied on evidences from your blood tests and other reports struck him too hard. Doctors have ears, but only a small number of doctors will be more willing to accommodate without hesitations...

So how far have you been doing just after the laparoscopy and did you ever have any no pains in the long period time? I really wonder....because I have similar experiences like yours but from different angles but with classic symptoms but rarely with no sign of fever....

Hi my name is Sana(23)! Waw i am sorry that you had such pain. I have pain 1 year exactly where appendix is..and doctors one year say i am healthy and they did send me to cat scan but it did not show anything. they dont believe me that i have chronic appendix so i fly to Europe to make a surgery.

Hi my name is Sana(23)! Waw i am sorry that you had such pain. I have pain 1 year exactly where appendix is..and doctors one year say i am healthy and they did send me to cat scan but it did not show anything. they dont believe me that i have chronic appendix so i fly to Europe to make a surgery.

I am having severe pain my right side. It's to the point that I cannot function. I am taking pain meds. The more I move around the more it hurts. The factor that keeps showing up is a kidney stone which my urologist says can not be the cause of my pain because there is no blockage. I have had a million tests including 2 ct scans, ivp , gallbladder scan, ultra sound, endoscopy. All normal. My urologist said he thinks chronic appendicitis, but the ct scan was normal. I feel like a hypochondriac. The urologist doesn't want to do anything. I had lithotripsy in Jan 2013 which did not dissolve the stone. Everyone thinks it's the stone except the urologist who thinks appendix. But no test confirms. What do I do next?

I am having severe pain my right side. It's to the point that I cannot function. I am taking pain meds. The more I move around the more it hurts. The factor that keeps showing up is a kidney stone which my urologist says can not be the cause of my pain because there is no blockage. I have had a million tests including 2 ct scans, ivp , gallbladder scan, ultra sound, endoscopy. All normal. My urologist said he thinks chronic appendicitis, but the ct scan was normal. I feel like a hypochondriac. The urologist doesn't want to do anything. I had lithotripsy in Jan 2013 which did not dissolve the stone. Everyone thinks it's the stone except the urologist who thinks appendix. But no test confirms. What do I do next?

My son last July started getting a pain on his right side across from his belly button. he also had acid reflux sometimes to the point he would vomit.
This pain eventually became constant,
He had an endoscopy which said he had some irritation related to acid reflux. Hhe visited the ER at least eight times.in a few months
they performed two cat scans with in three months and ultrasound of his liver area. The first cat scan said he might have Vasculitis but blood work looked normal. The second cat scan said he might have Crohn's. They then did a MRI next which said he did not have anything wrong except a slight fluid abnormality near his kidney. He then had a colonoscopy which said every thing looked fine. He still was in constant pain. They referred him to a surgeon and he elected to have his appendix removed. They did this and did find a band attaching his appendix to his intestines and figured this is what the problem must be. They claim the looked around and everything else was normal and they removed his appendix. Days after his pain came back, same pain same place... they referred him to pain management which he had two injections and they did nothing. He has been for acupuncture and nothing... he still is in constant pain and we have no answers. He still gets acid reflux, he also noticeably burps a lot.

My son last July started getting a pain on his right side across from his belly button. he also had acid reflux sometimes to the point he would vomit.
This pain eventually became constant,
He had an endoscopy which said he had some irritation related to acid reflux. Hhe visited the ER at least eight times.in a few months
they performed two cat scans with in three months and ultrasound of his liver area. The first cat scan said he might have Vasculitis but blood work looked normal. The second cat scan said he might have Crohn's. They then did a MRI next which said he did not have anything wrong except a slight fluid abnormality near his kidney. He then had a colonoscopy which said every thing looked fine. He still was in constant pain. They referred him to a surgeon and he elected to have his appendix removed. They did this and did find a band attaching his appendix to his intestines and figured this is what the problem must be. They claim the looked around and everything else was normal and they removed his appendix. Days after his pain came back, same pain same place... they referred him to pain management which he had two injections and they did nothing. He has been for acupuncture and nothing... he still is in constant pain and we have no answers. He still gets acid reflux, he also noticeably burps a lot.

Urge to have bowel movement but can't go. Nausea, sweating, pain, unable to pass gas. Have you had a CT of abdomen? Could be Meckel's diverticulum. Supposedly rare and even rarer that it causes problems, but this sounds just like what my husband went through. Meckel's was found after several years of ER visits. Doctor said he had never seen one so inflamed/large (though maybe he had not seen many). It had bled, causing severe anemia (hemoglobin 5). He had issues for 15 years before it was discovered. I think CT is the only way to diagnose, but I may be wrong. Good luck.

Urge to have bowel movement but can't go. Nausea, sweating, pain, unable to pass gas. Have you had a CT of abdomen? Could be Meckel's diverticulum. Supposedly rare and even rarer that it causes problems, but this sounds just like what my husband went through. Meckel's was found after several years of ER visits. Doctor said he had never seen one so inflamed/large (though maybe he had not seen many). It had bled, causing severe anemia (hemoglobin 5). He had issues for 15 years before it was discovered. I think CT is the only way to diagnose, but I may be wrong. Good luck.

Angellmarie, I have just read your post on your experience with your appendix.
So good to read you stuck to knowing your body and got the surgeon to remove the appendix.

I had an infected appendix about 5 years ago, excruciating pain and was told I had a stomach bug by 2 drs. By the 3rd wk I couldn't put up with the pain and sickness any longer finally a Dr who said it was appendix and went to a specialist who said i could either have it out or keep it either way I'll always have problems with my stomach so I chose to not have the surgery as I thought he knew what he was talking about.
I was told by drs I had IBS for all these yrs.
My stomach has now been playing up really badly for 3 wks, ultrasound and blood test showed clear for appendicitis so I was told it was constipation :-/

The pain has now changed to shooting pain in that one area where the appendix is so had a cat scan today and find out results tomorrow.

I did find one specialist recently who told me about chronic appendix which i hadnt heard of before only heard of the acute appendicitis and suggested cholonoscapy, I put it off as the other Dr said try laxatives which havnt helped so looks like I'll b getting the cholonoscapy.

Angellmarie, I have just read your post on your experience with your appendix.
So good to read you stuck to knowing your body and got the surgeon to remove the appendix.

I had an infected appendix about 5 years ago, excruciating pain and was told I had a stomach bug by 2 drs. By the 3rd wk I couldn't put up with the pain and sickness any longer finally a Dr who said it was appendix and went to a specialist who said i could either have it out or keep it either way I'll always have problems with my stomach so I chose to not have the surgery as I thought he knew what he was talking about.
I was told by drs I had IBS for all these yrs.
My stomach has now been playing up really badly for 3 wks, ultrasound and blood test showed clear for appendicitis so I was told it was constipation :-/

The pain has now changed to shooting pain in that one area where the appendix is so had a cat scan today and find out results tomorrow.

I did find one specialist recently who told me about chronic appendix which i hadnt heard of before only heard of the acute appendicitis and suggested cholonoscapy, I put it off as the other Dr said try laxatives which havnt helped so looks like I'll b getting the cholonoscapy.

I'm 11 years old and every month I had abdominal pain since I was 9, the Doctors thought I had bad eating habits but my dad when he was little had a really bad abdominal pain just like me and one day he got a really bad pain so bad that he couldn't even stand up or raise his leg that day they took him to the hospital and he got surgery and it was from his appendix, like most people know there is two types of appendicitis one being acute that comes and stays and you have to get surgery and another one the rarest chronic appendicitis it comes and goes away,so my dad had the chronic appendicitis but like it is so rare the Doctors didn't even believe it existed but appendicitis surely can be very deadly if your doctor doesn't spot it right away it can lead to death because in chronic appendicitis there is a last pain that if not treated quickly you appendix can rupture and infect all your organs. So in my case I got the last pain 2 days a go it was so bad my parents had to carry me to the car my parents took me to the ER ( Emergency Room) When I got there my dad told the Doctors about his chronic appendicitis when he was a teenager at last I got surgery and got my appendix removed yesterday and I really thank God for being at my side and not letting my appendix rupture. After my surgery the Doctors didn't believe it was chronic appendicitis but it really was.
If you don't believe chronic appendicitis exists and you have this symptoms,Abdominal pain every certain time period,vomiting,and can't move a lot please go to the doctor and tell them to check your appendix before it's to late.Good luck hopefully this helped

I'm 11 years old and every month I had abdominal pain since I was 9, the Doctors thought I had bad eating habits but my dad when he was little had a really bad abdominal pain just like me and one day he got a really bad pain so bad that he couldn't even stand up or raise his leg that day they took him to the hospital and he got surgery and it was from his appendix, like most people know there is two types of appendicitis one being acute that comes and stays and you have to get surgery and another one the rarest chronic appendicitis it comes and goes away,so my dad had the chronic appendicitis but like it is so rare the Doctors didn't even believe it existed but appendicitis surely can be very deadly if your doctor doesn't spot it right away it can lead to death because in chronic appendicitis there is a last pain that if not treated quickly you appendix can rupture and infect all your organs. So in my case I got the last pain 2 days a go it was so bad my parents had to carry me to the car my parents took me to the ER ( Emergency Room) When I got there my dad told the Doctors about his chronic appendicitis when he was a teenager at last I got surgery and got my appendix removed yesterday and I really thank God for being at my side and not letting my appendix rupture. After my surgery the Doctors didn't believe it was chronic appendicitis but it really was.
If you don't believe chronic appendicitis exists and you have this symptoms,Abdominal pain every certain time period,vomiting,and can't move a lot please go to the doctor and tell them to check your appendix before it's to late.Good luck hopefully this helped

I had a sharp pain after I sneezed that felt like something exploded right where my appendix is over two months ago. Have had IBS type symptoms for years but never a diagnosis on that. But I never had a pain like that. that night my belly felt full and warmand was achy all over. Next day it seemed somewhat better and then that night its was achy. On monday it seemed to be improving so I didnt go to a doctor. Dumb. By Thursday I was still having pains but it was mostly at night. I went to an urgent care and the lady refused toorder me and ultrasound and said she thought it was a pulled hip flexor muscle and constipation. and that if it did not go away in 2 weeks to see and internal medicine doc. Well it felt better about 2 days after I saw her. I did however seem more constipated at times than usual after that. Well now recently 2 1/2 mo later after that I started getting pain just to the right of my belly button and sometimes it would be on the left or cause a shooting pain up higher to the right. but mostly a dull ache on the right. I have been eating less and lmiting certain foods. but this is going on over a week now. Thinking it could be an inflammed appendix?? better that than crohns or something worse. but who wants to be cut open. I will be getting an image of my gut on tuesday and today is Friday. Hope it all goes well.

I had a sharp pain after I sneezed that felt like something exploded right where my appendix is over two months ago. Have had IBS type symptoms for years but never a diagnosis on that. But I never had a pain like that. that night my belly felt full and warmand was achy all over. Next day it seemed somewhat better and then that night its was achy. On monday it seemed to be improving so I didnt go to a doctor. Dumb. By Thursday I was still having pains but it was mostly at night. I went to an urgent care and the lady refused toorder me and ultrasound and said she thought it was a pulled hip flexor muscle and constipation. and that if it did not go away in 2 weeks to see and internal medicine doc. Well it felt better about 2 days after I saw her. I did however seem more constipated at times than usual after that. Well now recently 2 1/2 mo later after that I started getting pain just to the right of my belly button and sometimes it would be on the left or cause a shooting pain up higher to the right. but mostly a dull ache on the right. I have been eating less and lmiting certain foods. but this is going on over a week now. Thinking it could be an inflammed appendix?? better that than crohns or something worse. but who wants to be cut open. I will be getting an image of my gut on tuesday and today is Friday. Hope it all goes well.

I have had pain for several years. I remember it getting really bad about 3 and a half years ago when I was pregnant. I had the pain before that but when I became pregnant I was so scared something was going to rupture during labor I went in to get it checked out.

My pain is exactly on McBurney's Point. The pain started getting so severe I would collapse when it hit me. I asked my primary care physician about it and he poked around and said he didn't know what it was and went to leave the room. I basically demanded he send me to a surgeon. The surgeon verified an umbilical hernia but said there was nothing to do while I was pregnant and get a CT scan after I had the baby.

I also had the OB-GYN do an ultrasound and he found nothing wrong.

After I had the baby, life got in the way and almost 2 years later I went back to another surgeon. He was useless. I sat there and pointed right to my appendix (having no idea it was even located there) and said "it feels like it's going to burst" and he just said there was nothing wrong and to get a CT scan if I wanted to (which I paid for out of pocket since I had no insurance at the time). He sent me a letter saying he saw the hernia but nothing that would cause the RLQ pain and told me to poop. Seriously. That was it. I wasted over $1000 out of pocket for nothing. He was terribly rude and one of those dr's that seems to hate his job. He also failed to tell me I had an ovarian cyst on my ovary in the exact spot I was having the pain (it was seen on the CT scan by my newest surgeon).

I now have insurance again and have been scrambling to get everything fixed that I can since I've already met my out of pocket max for the year (I had the accessory navicular bone in both feet and had surgery on one in Sept. and get the other done in Dec.).

The pain has gotten far worse and much more frequent. I have had sharp stabbing pain along with flu like symptoms, including waking up shaking uncontrollably, then sweating, etc. 4-5 times in the past 5 months. The pain has been at a dull ache with flare ups sometimes daily for an entire month now. It's never lasted this long.

Anyway, I have again had a (clear) pelvic ultrasound and scheduled an appt with a GI specialist for next week. I saw a surgeon a few weeks ago who wanted me to have the ultrasound (to check that cyst which is gone) before he moved on with a plan to laproscopically fix my hernias, check around, and TAKE OUT MY APPENDIX!!! I mean, he just calmly said "if the hernias bother you we'll fix them, look around, and take the appendix out". I was in shock that I might have a chance at a normal life again lol.

I go back to see him on the 30th and would like to have a colonoscopy beforehand since it might show something and I am still nervous he will change his mind about taking it out because it just seemed to easy. I almost feel lucky to have hernias since he has a valid reason to go in and insurance will cover it all.

Btw, my primary care dr told me there's no such thing as chronic appendicitis even though I never even mentioned it to him. I don't mention it to dr's because I know they think it's BS. BUT what is strange is that in his notes on my chart he put this "I feel the likelihood of chronic appendicitis is remote". You can't say something doesn't exist and then say the chance is "remote". If I don't believe in Santa Claus and I heard a noise at the door I couldn't say there was a remote chance it was Santa! lol

At any rate, I am somewhat hopeful I will have my hernias and appendix fixed before the end of the year. I am almost excited for them to look at it and test it and say yes, it was sick. I want proof to show those doctors who wouldn't help me so that maybe someone else will be helped and they won't be so quick to say it's a myth.

If he takes it out and all goes well I will be sure to share his name on here so that maybe someone else could benefit from his experience with me. I tried desperately to find a list of doctors who know that chronic appendicitis is real.

I have had pain for several years. I remember it getting really bad about 3 and a half years ago when I was pregnant. I had the pain before that but when I became pregnant I was so scared something was going to rupture during labor I went in to get it checked out.

My pain is exactly on McBurney's Point. The pain started getting so severe I would collapse when it hit me. I asked my primary care physician about it and he poked around and said he didn't know what it was and went to leave the room. I basically demanded he send me to a surgeon. The surgeon verified an umbilical hernia but said there was nothing to do while I was pregnant and get a CT scan after I had the baby.

I also had the OB-GYN do an ultrasound and he found nothing wrong.

After I had the baby, life got in the way and almost 2 years later I went back to another surgeon. He was useless. I sat there and pointed right to my appendix (having no idea it was even located there) and said "it feels like it's going to burst" and he just said there was nothing wrong and to get a CT scan if I wanted to (which I paid for out of pocket since I had no insurance at the time). He sent me a letter saying he saw the hernia but nothing that would cause the RLQ pain and told me to poop. Seriously. That was it. I wasted over $1000 out of pocket for nothing. He was terribly rude and one of those dr's that seems to hate his job. He also failed to tell me I had an ovarian cyst on my ovary in the exact spot I was having the pain (it was seen on the CT scan by my newest surgeon).

I now have insurance again and have been scrambling to get everything fixed that I can since I've already met my out of pocket max for the year (I had the accessory navicular bone in both feet and had surgery on one in Sept. and get the other done in Dec.).

The pain has gotten far worse and much more frequent. I have had sharp stabbing pain along with flu like symptoms, including waking up shaking uncontrollably, then sweating, etc. 4-5 times in the past 5 months. The pain has been at a dull ache with flare ups sometimes daily for an entire month now. It's never lasted this long.

Anyway, I have again had a (clear) pelvic ultrasound and scheduled an appt with a GI specialist for next week. I saw a surgeon a few weeks ago who wanted me to have the ultrasound (to check that cyst which is gone) before he moved on with a plan to laproscopically fix my hernias, check around, and TAKE OUT MY APPENDIX!!! I mean, he just calmly said "if the hernias bother you we'll fix them, look around, and take the appendix out". I was in shock that I might have a chance at a normal life again lol.

I go back to see him on the 30th and would like to have a colonoscopy beforehand since it might show something and I am still nervous he will change his mind about taking it out because it just seemed to easy. I almost feel lucky to have hernias since he has a valid reason to go in and insurance will cover it all.

Btw, my primary care dr told me there's no such thing as chronic appendicitis even though I never even mentioned it to him. I don't mention it to dr's because I know they think it's BS. BUT what is strange is that in his notes on my chart he put this "I feel the likelihood of chronic appendicitis is remote". You can't say something doesn't exist and then say the chance is "remote". If I don't believe in Santa Claus and I heard a noise at the door I couldn't say there was a remote chance it was Santa! lol

At any rate, I am somewhat hopeful I will have my hernias and appendix fixed before the end of the year. I am almost excited for them to look at it and test it and say yes, it was sick. I want proof to show those doctors who wouldn't help me so that maybe someone else will be helped and they won't be so quick to say it's a myth.

If he takes it out and all goes well I will be sure to share his name on here so that maybe someone else could benefit from his experience with me. I tried desperately to find a list of doctors who know that chronic appendicitis is real.

I feel exactly as you do. I have been having intermittent abdominal pain from belly button to RLQ for about 2- 2.5 years. Every doc or NP I have seen so far as looked at me like I am making these symptoms up. I suffer from horrible night sweats mainly located to my abdominal region and wake up with my tshirt drenched some mornings. I get clammy, hot then cold, sweaty and also deal with loose stools every other BM. I hate feeling like this. The providers say well your labs are normal and you don't have rebound tenderness. I bring up chronic appendicitis and no one takes me seriously. I am at the point of just stabbing myself to that region just so they have to go in their surgically. Ha! I won't because I don't want to deal with sepsis or leakage in my abdominal cavity. I am at the point of giving up. I lose weight and then slowly gain some back but I can't keep living like this. What options do I have at this point? I admire the hell out of your resilience and I feel like I have been suffering with an ongoing infection for years too. My body is strong but my quality of life is beyond poor especially if I have to keep living like this. Thanks for your story it gives me hope:)

I feel exactly as you do. I have been having intermittent abdominal pain from belly button to RLQ for about 2- 2.5 years. Every doc or NP I have seen so far as looked at me like I am making these symptoms up. I suffer from horrible night sweats mainly located to my abdominal region and wake up with my tshirt drenched some mornings. I get clammy, hot then cold, sweaty and also deal with loose stools every other BM. I hate feeling like this. The providers say well your labs are normal and you don't have rebound tenderness. I bring up chronic appendicitis and no one takes me seriously. I am at the point of just stabbing myself to that region just so they have to go in their surgically. Ha! I won't because I don't want to deal with sepsis or leakage in my abdominal cavity. I am at the point of giving up. I lose weight and then slowly gain some back but I can't keep living like this. What options do I have at this point? I admire the hell out of your resilience and I feel like I have been suffering with an ongoing infection for years too. My body is strong but my quality of life is beyond poor especially if I have to keep living like this. Thanks for your story it gives me hope:)

I feel exactly as you do. I have been having intermittent abdominal pain from belly button to RLQ for about 2- 2.5 years. Every doc or NP I have seen so far as looked at me like I am making these symptoms up. I suffer from horrible night sweats mainly located to my abdominal region and wake up with my tshirt drenched some mornings. I get clammy, hot then cold, sweaty and also deal with loose stools every other BM. I hate feeling like this. The providers say well your labs are normal and you don't have rebound tenderness. I bring up chronic appendicitis and no one takes me seriously. I am at the point of just stabbing myself to that region just so they have to go in their surgically. Ha! I won't because I don't want to deal with sepsis or leakage in my abdominal cavity. I am at the point of giving up. I lose weight and then slowly gain some back but I can't keep living like this. What options do I have at this point? I admire the hell out of your resilience and I feel like I have been suffering with an ongoing infection for years too. My body is strong but my quality of life is beyond poor especially if I have to keep living like this. Thanks for your story it gives me hope:)

Yes it exists. I had atypical chronic appendicitis for 3 years and had multiple diagnosis from several doctors, one of then even diagnosed me with drug over dose but couldn&#39;t figure out how I was covering it up (no I wasn&#39;t on drugs) usually I heard it was something to do with my bowels so they would give me pain meds a shot of muscle relaxer and send me on my way. Finally I got a Dr that refused to discharge me from the E.R. til he figured it out (after telling him about the multiple attacks and diagnosis) they ran several test including sonogram and ct scan. After finding nothing he consulted with the general surgeon and they took me to surgery,(this was after being in er for over 16 hours) where they put a visual scope inside me.I woke up and the Dr told me I was very lucky because he had never in his career seen an appendix as infected as mine was and they couldn&#39;t find it because it never swelled up. So keep looking for that dr that will finally listen to you!

Hi. What ER did you go to and/or what was the doctors name? I am always discharged from the ER with 10/10 pain still, because they say it is not chronic appendicitis. Please, if anyone has any names of a doctor who listened to them I am desperate. I keep paying 50$ copays to go to new drs every week, but none listen. I can't afford my medical bills anymore. I will travel anywhere I just need this to be removed.

I feel exactly as you do. I have been having intermittent abdominal pain from belly button to RLQ for about 2- 2.5 years. Every doc or NP I have seen so far as looked at me like I am making these symptoms up. I suffer from horrible night sweats mainly located to my abdominal region and wake up with my tshirt drenched some mornings. I get clammy, hot then cold, sweaty and also deal with loose stools every other BM. I hate feeling like this. The providers say well your labs are normal and you don't have rebound tenderness. I bring up chronic appendicitis and no one takes me seriously. I am at the point of just stabbing myself to that region just so they have to go in their surgically. Ha! I won't because I don't want to deal with sepsis or leakage in my abdominal cavity. I am at the point of giving up. I lose weight and then slowly gain some back but I can't keep living like this. What options do I have at this point? I admire the hell out of your resilience and I feel like I have been suffering with an ongoing infection for years too. My body is strong but my quality of life is beyond poor especially if I have to keep living like this. Thanks for your story it gives me hope:)

It exists. After having Lower Right Abdominal pain for 8 months, I finally met a dr. who said it would be "worth it" to take my appendix out. (It appears normal on 3 ultrasounds and a CT scan). He referenced this study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3015983/ showing women of child-bearing age have high incidence of appendix problems. "Only 3% of the women had an initial diagnosis of appendicitis. Only 22.7% of the appendixes in 772 cases were normal; the rest had varying degrees of pathology. The most common pathology result was adhesions, followed by fibrosis." So technically chronic "appendicitis" (infection) may not be common but there are often other problems with the female appendix!!

It exists. After having Lower Right Abdominal pain for 8 months, I finally met a dr. who said it would be "worth it" to take my appendix out. (It appears normal on 3 ultrasounds and a CT scan). He referenced this study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3015983/ showing women of child-bearing age have high incidence of appendix problems. "Only 3% of the women had an initial diagnosis of appendicitis. Only 22.7% of the appendixes in 772 cases were normal; the rest had varying degrees of pathology. The most common pathology result was adhesions, followed by fibrosis." So technically chronic "appendicitis" (infection) may not be common but there are often other problems with the female appendix!!

I've been having nearly the same problem as you have been having. I'm 19, female, been experiencing LRQ discomfort for a consistent 6 months. I had my gallbladder removed in 2014. I've had a colonoscopy- normal, laparoscopy-no endometriosis or ovarian cysts but pool of blood in the belly *not alarming, CT scans *from March- appendix appears unremarkable, fluid in cul de sac *unknown reason. I'm a dancer and I've had to sit out of a lot of classes do to the pain eventually making me feel nauseous. I wake up with cold sweats and sharp and stinging pain that makes me run to the bathroom, constant discomfort ranging around a 5 out of 10, hair loss, no noticeable weight changes, always leaving doctors offices with no answers. I've fainted a few times within the year and my boyfriend aunt (who is a former EMT) thinks my blood pressure "bottoms out". I've been wanting to ask my gastroenterologist about chronic appendicitis but it appeared she was only focused on seeing if it was colitis and when it was negative she was done seeing me. I think I need to find a new doctor.

I've been having nearly the same problem as you have been having. I'm 19, female, been experiencing LRQ discomfort for a consistent 6 months. I had my gallbladder removed in 2014. I've had a colonoscopy- normal, laparoscopy-no endometriosis or ovarian cysts but pool of blood in the belly *not alarming, CT scans *from March- appendix appears unremarkable, fluid in cul de sac *unknown reason. I'm a dancer and I've had to sit out of a lot of classes do to the pain eventually making me feel nauseous. I wake up with cold sweats and sharp and stinging pain that makes me run to the bathroom, constant discomfort ranging around a 5 out of 10, hair loss, no noticeable weight changes, always leaving doctors offices with no answers. I've fainted a few times within the year and my boyfriend aunt (who is a former EMT) thinks my blood pressure "bottoms out". I've been wanting to ask my gastroenterologist about chronic appendicitis but it appeared she was only focused on seeing if it was colitis and when it was negative she was done seeing me. I think I need to find a new doctor.

Here I go again looking for answers! at 16 was told I had IBS,wasnt too bad nothing I couldnt handle or tolerate..have some bad days constipated or the big D with cramps but didnt hit me like what im having now for last 7 months,usually had relief after bm, now its severe abdominal pain,belly button area, low left and right side pain,,sometimes radiates upper area and pelvic/rectal pain,stabbing pain,not crampy.Lost almost 60lbs,metal taste in mouth,heartburn,bloating,bad nausea,hair loss,appetite loss due to the pain (was on ensure but just now starting solid food..nothing agree's with me)bm's alternate,fever and night sweats,trapped gas (i havent been able to pass gas in months)alot of bowel noises and rumbling.After bm still continue to have urge to pass gas or stool but cant,Many trips to er,nothing can be found wrong,but this mimics appendicitis or sometimes partial bowel obstruction,few times a month wake from sound sleep with "gassy diarrhea attacks" feel clammy/sweating/ feel like im gonna die.In April was in hospital for 3 days for this pain.Have had many procedures,tested for porphyria,celiac lactose intolerent,sprue,negative,mercury/toxin poison now.waiting on results.Many catscans,pap/pelvic exams,and ultrasounds,
Colonscopy-normal?,gi noted on biopsy some inflammation,said its ibs.
endoscopy-normal
hida scan-gallbadder is ok
laparscopy-no endometriosis
kidney ivp-no stones
I'm 28 and use to be active,I had to quit my job (cosmetologist) because most of time I cant even stand up,any ideas or similar experiences appreciated,ty (:

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